Truly Texas Mexico, A Native Culinary Heritage In Recipes

You will never look at food the same way after reading this beautiful story of a People. First settlers of many parts of the US before there was a US. A people’s heritage 15,000 years in the making and proudly continuing and flourishing to this day. This book is the nexus of family life, surviving through cuisine and making the family whole and keeping important traditions and ways alive.  Detailing with exquisite precision the best ingredients for cuisine and a story told with such heart, care and cultivation. The cradle of a delicious cuisine spread around the world but at its a core the book gives us an understanding of one of the world’s great cultures that remains creative, imaginative, talented and strong.

Ethnogenesis, anthropology, archeology, drying and preservation techniques so far ahead of their times are still the backbone of today’s best. How they persevered despite great hardships is unimaginable, food held things together. They shared, communed. Yet the story is an old one. A story as interesting, compelling, uplifting, and enlightening as ever told, through respect for the land and the food grown on it. The costs were so high once later day many settlers “discovered” the Americas. Disconnected from their own humanity, of the new western migrants brought their slash and burn mentality with them from Europe after decimating the forests and resources there 500 years ago. They destroyed the grasslands, bison, lakes, streams, free and equitable access to lands needed for food cultivation as it had been for thousands of years. The book reminds all people history didn’t begin two hundred years ago just because historians wish it away. Fortunately the traditions and ancient knowledge lived on and still lives on despite uninformed common sense resource management, one with the earth, one with each other.

The struggle to overcome is tied in every way how, where, and how we eat. Discover where truly delicious food originated and how to cook it. First from the heart, second from the hand, third from the soul.

When one understands the importance of family so intrinsically tied to creating rich, succulent and straight-up mouthwatering food, one can begin to understand why this handcrafted cuisine has withstood the test of time. By better understanding the importance the cultures through food (or any other insightful means) the better people we become, as we walk in someone else’s shoes. Something an artful book does. As this one does and should be required reading to burst the bubble of living in food and psychological silos.

The beauty of this book (eBook format only) is it’s about the power of serving others and the power of massive amounts of love and responsibility it takes to make the perfect dish passed down through millennia! Tacos, feminism, and cultural resistance. How home cooking saved indigenous People. Check out the multi-awarded documentary of the same name on Prime, Google TV and Apple TV from Executive Producer and writer Adán Medrano at https://adanmedrano.com/truly-texas-mexican-documentary-movie/ for more of everything.